Obama never had executive authority over anything in Chicago. He was a state Senator from 97-04, but again, how that directly affects the state of a particular city is admittedly beyond me.
Facebook chat can be accessed via XMPP. So use a good IM client like Pidgin with the OTR plugin and you have nice, encrypted chats via FB. I use it daily, and it works great.
I've been using Chromium as my main browser for quite some time now, and I have to say I prefer it in many aspects over Firefox. It certainly reminds me of how Firefox *used* to be all those years ago, but it has the same fatal flaw: it can be bogged down to uselessness with poorly implemented extensions. As far as the PDF issue goes, I use "Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer", which opens many different types of document in Google Docs. I prefer it to dedicated PDF viewer/editors myself. Sadly, there are several packages that aren't available for the PPC branch, as I can attest, but that's the nature of using non x86 hardware in general, sad to say. At the end of the day, the defaults can always be changed if you don't like them, and it's good to see that they're at least asking for community feedback instead of charging ahead with an ill conceived vision (I'm looking at you, Gnome 3 and Unity).
"you have nothing to fear!" so you shouldn't worry about being recorded. Where have I heard that one before?
I'm not saying that I don't believe public servants while carrying out their official duties in public shouldn't be fair game for monitoring, but the "nothing to fear" angle just strikes me in a VERY bad way.
I've used Sprint's mobile broadband (just a blackberry, tether, and sprint's software) in downtown Chicago for quite some time, and it's acceptable for web browsing and the such. I definitely would NOT use it for anything more. It's just got too much latency.
Also, I've used a Motorola T720 with a tether and a SLIP script with Verizon. It only got me basic dialup speeds, and it's been a while since I've written any kind of script for pppd, but it got the job done in a *very* rural area of Illinois.
When it's all said and done, I'd stick with wired if I have any kind of choice.
I really wouldn't expect this sort of thing from a Western European country. Maybehaps they're just following the US's lead in turning into a surveillance state. Of course, Britian has been going along that path for years...
You're very true. That *is* the Slack Pack management system. There's always upgradepkg now, but that's not very often used. You really can't beat full removal and installation.
Yeah, the upgrade system for Slack either wasn't thought out very well or is a bare bones solution waiting for something better. Swaret is what I use as the upgrading and dependency finding solution. Happy Slacking!
My iBook has the same thing. On some of the keys on the right side, there are colored numbers on them. Those are the numbers that numlock turns on on it.
Let them on some machines that with the GIMP. It would teach them a little bit about keyboard bindings, and let them do some drawing at the same time. Only problem here is that you need alot of computers with decent power (or a few with decent power), and I don't know how you're going to get those.
Anyway, the GIMP runs on so many platforms, you could run Windows or OSwhatever machines and still use it!
No teacher in their right mind would do this to a student. The teacher should be the one punished here. Even if it were a joke, it's his fault for telling his students that they should do it. He probably wanted to read a magazine for awhile or something and told them to do break in (something he probably thought they couldn't do) to keep them busy.
Is there a reason that this story didn't make the main page of Slashdot? It only appears when you do a search, and it should be between "Europe's Version of E3" and "CERN May Have Found The Higgs Boson". Does anybody know what's going on?
From my standpoint, this could be a very helpful option for some businesses and beginners./BUT/ you also have to remember most linux users are used to the functions of their machines and how to use them. It's been said that a linux users wears two hats-- User and Admin. Home users of linux would be getting the unfair end of this certification. Expensive training to cover how to do things you already understand is something i've done before and REALLY hope i don't have to again. If you want to waste your time, go for it. If you actually learn something, great. I guess it's really an objective thing to be determined on a case by case basis.
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You'd be right, of course!
Obama never had executive authority over anything in Chicago. He was a state Senator from 97-04, but again, how that directly affects the state of a particular city is admittedly beyond me.
Well, he decided that *maybe* he didn't really mean what he said...
Ford Exec Retracts Statements About Tracking Drivers With The GPS In Their Cars. "The statement I made in my eyes was hypothetical and I want to clear this up."
Either he doesn't really understand what the technology his company is deploying does/how it works, OR he's a liar. Neither bode well for Ford.
Open Source TV set? All well and good, I suppose, until it comes out with a locked bootloader. Is this a TiVo situation all over again?
Facebook chat can be accessed via XMPP. So use a good IM client like Pidgin with the OTR plugin and you have nice, encrypted chats via FB. I use it daily, and it works great.
It's defined as 160 days in my state's statutes. 725 ILCS 5/103-5
I've been using Chromium as my main browser for quite some time now, and I have to say I prefer it in many aspects over Firefox.
It certainly reminds me of how Firefox *used* to be all those years ago, but it has the same fatal flaw: it can be bogged down to uselessness with poorly implemented extensions.
As far as the PDF issue goes, I use "Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer", which opens many different types of document in Google Docs. I prefer it to dedicated PDF viewer/editors myself.
Sadly, there are several packages that aren't available for the PPC branch, as I can attest, but that's the nature of using non x86 hardware in general, sad to say.
At the end of the day, the defaults can always be changed if you don't like them, and it's good to see that they're at least asking for community feedback instead of charging ahead with an ill conceived vision (I'm looking at you, Gnome 3 and Unity).
What it means when you say "literally"
"you have nothing to fear!" so you shouldn't worry about being recorded. Where have I heard that one before?
I'm not saying that I don't believe public servants while carrying out their official duties in public shouldn't be fair game for monitoring, but the "nothing to fear" angle just strikes me in a VERY bad way.
I've used Sprint's mobile broadband (just a blackberry, tether, and sprint's software) in downtown Chicago for quite some time, and it's acceptable for web browsing and the such. I definitely would NOT use it for anything more. It's just got too much latency.
Also, I've used a Motorola T720 with a tether and a SLIP script with Verizon. It only got me basic dialup speeds, and it's been a while since I've written any kind of script for pppd, but it got the job done in a *very* rural area of Illinois.
When it's all said and done, I'd stick with wired if I have any kind of choice.
It's always interesting to see what they were thinking (or not thinking for that matter).
Bill Gates whas knighted too. Well, the honor in that's gone now...
I really wouldn't expect this sort of thing from a Western European country. Maybehaps they're just following the US's lead in turning into a surveillance state. Of course, Britian has been going along that path for years...
You're very true. That *is* the Slack Pack management system. There's always upgradepkg now, but that's not very often used. You really can't beat full removal and installation.
Yeah, the upgrade system for Slack either wasn't thought out very well or is a bare bones solution waiting for something better. Swaret is what I use as the upgrading and dependency finding solution. Happy Slacking!
I don't think the point here is to actively improve the software, as much as it is to increase their user base.
I don't think that /. is the best place to put kernel bug reports. Try being productive and actually sending yours off to the LKML.
"It's a win-win combination that's a proven success south of the border and promises to help strengthen Canada's music scene."
--Denise Donlon, president of Sony Music Canada
Could anybody name anything other than iTunes that sells music (single tracks) over the internet and makes money?
My iBook has the same thing. On some of the keys on the right side, there are colored numbers on them. Those are the numbers that numlock turns on on it.
The Linux Answering Machine HOWTO is not exactly what you're looking for, but surely a good start.
UIUC uses Solaris.
Let them on some machines that with the GIMP. It would teach them a little bit about keyboard bindings, and let them do some drawing at the same time. Only problem here is that you need alot of computers with decent power (or a few with decent power), and I don't know how you're going to get those.
Anyway, the GIMP runs on so many platforms, you could run Windows or OSwhatever machines and still use it!
No teacher in their right mind would do this to a student. The teacher should be the one punished here. Even if it were a joke, it's his fault for telling his students that they should do it. He probably wanted to read a magazine for awhile or something and told them to do break in (something he probably thought they couldn't do) to keep them busy.
Is there a reason that this story didn't make the main page of Slashdot? It only appears when you do a search, and it should be between "Europe's Version of E3" and "CERN May Have Found The Higgs Boson". Does anybody know what's going on?
From my standpoint, this could be a very helpful option for some businesses and beginners. /BUT/ you also have to remember most linux users are used to the functions of their machines and how to use them. It's been said that a linux users wears two hats-- User and Admin.
Home users of linux would be getting the unfair end of this certification. Expensive training to cover how to do things you already understand is something i've done before and REALLY hope i don't have to again. If you want to waste your time, go for it. If you actually learn something, great. I guess it's really an objective thing to be determined on a case by case basis.